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...retail sales except food, prescribed drugs, newspapers and periodicals. To be raised was some $40,000,000 which would help pay banks for advances for jobless relief. New York's sales tax was notification that the desperate city had come to the end of its tax tether...
...Tether's End. The Federal Farm Board had come to the end of its tether on cotton ideas. It was paying $5,200,000 per year to store 1,300,000 bales for which no market existed. Fortnight ago the Board formally renounced stabilization: "Continued purchase in the face of overproduction is not the remedy. For two years the Board has cushioned American farmers against price declines . . . has accumulated a considerable store of cotton which is virtually frozen. Stabilization is valuable in the face of temporary surpluses but it is futile in the face of continued overproduction." The Board also...
...Inventor Bleecker tied a rope to the keel of the little machine inside its hangar at Valley Stream, Long Island. Then he started the motor, entered the cockpit, gently opened the throttle. The craft rose vertically from the hangar floor, hovered under the roof at the end of its tether, settled lightly to the floor again...
...longer need families tether goats in backyards. No longer need they endure the caprice stench...
Said Bobby Burns, sapient Scot: "Nae man can tether Time." So TIME, at times, runs wild. Thus, TIME which "discovereth all things," blazoned business item commending Servel President Seaber for expeditious action in approaching production of gas fired refrigerators. Not discovered by TIME is the fact that for over two years the Ice-o-lator, gas fired refrigerator, has been serving hundreds of homes. Its makers, National Refrigerating Co., Winchester Arms sponsored corporation, apparently lack potent publicity promoter. "Improve your TIME and your TIME will improve you." Reader, not yet subscriber, V. MACGRATH...